People often have pre-perspective based on their education, personal beliefs, and their background. People often make a prediction based on their pre-perspective. Pre-perspective often leads to biased prediction or judgment. For example, my friend was wrongly accused as a drug dealer because he had drug addictive friends and his appearance looks a drug user. I believe that he is not a drug dealer, but other people believe him a drug dealer. Why do other people believe in such rumors? Because of their pre-perspectives about my friend. When they see my friend’s appearance look like a drug user, they only gather information or rumors that fit what they have already believed. This is called pre-perspective. People with pre-perspective often gather information to reinforce their pre-perspective when they judge someone. I don’t have a pre-perspective about my friend, so I gather good and bad information about him before I make a judgment.
Last year, I worked for a hotel in Ohio. One time, my supervisor told me to push the bar to the storage areas. On the way to the storage areas, I stopped at the kitchen to clean up the mess and trash on the bar. My friend helped me to clean up the bar, she saw money and she took it( 20 or 30). My supervisor assumed that I took the money, so she looked at me differently. I guess my supervisor had a pre-perspective about me. My friend was slim and small, she had been assigned to look for me a few times. I don’t want to narrow the information (skin color and age) to point out who she is. If my supervisor reads this blog, she can ask a few people that fit the description that I gave. One of them will change the skin color when they are asked. The reason I tell this story is to remind you that people often have pre-perspective about other people. This may lead to misjudging or wrongly accusing other people.
I hope people can know about pre-perspective when they deal with rumors. I have a lot of rumors, people who want to know about me, please use this method to clear rumors for me. When you gather information about me, please ask your self the information is reliable. People, who give information about me, do they hate me or have any benefits about it? Pre-perspective often leads to bias or misjudging, because you only gather information to fit with your beliefs or your pre-perspective about someone or something. For example, people who believe me as that kind of person, often gather or collect information and rumors that fit with their pre-perspective about me. They often exclude information that is against their pre-perspective about me. The rumors have made my life miserable. I often talk about politics and social issues. The kind of person like me you can see a lot on social media or YouTube. I may have different political views or ideas, but I never hurt or harm anyone. I have been taken advantage or even stabbed in my back, but I never take any revenge. I just stay away from them.
Many people apply pre-perspective to attract viewers on social media too. For example, China and Russia tarnish the US by showing only the bad sides of the US so they can attract people who hate the US. They don’t show the good sides of what the US has done to its citizens and the world. In the contrast, the US can tarnish China and Russia with a similar strategy. Individuals often tarnish one another by giving bad sides of someone if they don’t like them.